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Boric Acid powder. Sprinkle it on your carpets and other flea hiding places. 24 hours later vaccum up their exploded bodies. They eat the stuff and it fizzes them into oblivion. Works with roaches too.

For your animals, take them to be groomed while you boric acid the carpets, etc. De-flea them before coming home.

We have been giving our dog "Program" which is the flea birth control. Flea bites the dog, and is sterile. It helps break the flea life cycle. You didn't want to use chemicals, but in the summer and early fall we have been using "Frontline" topical. It is supposedly safe and it does seem to disappear in the fur. I don't like the idea of chemicals but I truly can't deal with fleas. We will only be using it through this month and then will just stick with the Program pill until late Spring '08. Also, nemotodes, tiny living worm type things that you buy at home and garden stores you sprinkle on your lawn and keep watered. They naturally eat the fleas. It also helps break the cycle. All os this costs money, but they keep the population in control until it's no longer flea season. Good luck. P.S. I have read that a lot of people use a service called "Feabusters" in the phonebook. It's costly but supposedly is non-toxic and works. We've never tried it, though.

Plug a nightlight into a low plugin. sit a bowl of water in front of night light. For whatever weird reason fleas enjoy skinny dipping at night, but can't swin. It doesn't get rid of lfeaas, but dumping a bowl of drowned fleas in the morning brings some satisfaction.

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"My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.
Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I,of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories, in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally."